Hi Juz,

Sorry for late reply to this,

Unfortunately that was not possible to achieve this in current system for only conversation with Group admin.

But you can restrict "Add as friend" and "conversation" privacy from your backend > Easysocial > profile type > select your profile type > privacy > Who can send message to me - friend only && Who can send friend request to me - friend to friends only , so all the registered user do not have permission to add as friend and conversation with other member.

Thanks for your response Arlex.

Is it possible to make friends association from the backend? So that site/group admin can add registered members in the group as friend of group admin. Then we don't need to bother about it in front-end and functionality can be restricted.

Hey Juz,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply, unfortunately that was not possible add friend from backend.

But you can manually create data from your database - #__social_friends table, check my attached screenshot and detail at below.

Hi Arlex,

Apologies if this falls under customization. We think it's a technical request and need help.

We are trying to establish friends relationship from ES backend. Such that group admin can be added as "friend" of each group member. And vice-versa each group member a friend of group admin only. Group members are not automatically added as each other's friends. We are doing this only so that admin and individual user can private message each other. Perhaps there's a better way to accomplish this [maybe using chat app]. We have a few questions though:

1) At present we can't get PHPmyadmin to work. In it's absence, what database queries can we run to establish this friends relationship?
2) Does the query need to be run for User A & B separately if we want them to the friends of each other?
3) Instead of add as friend, could we simply integrate & use a chat app like comet chat to accomplish this? Then private messaging can be handled by comet chat without us having to establish these associations in the database? Are you aware if Comet Chat requires friends association to be in place before members can chat with one another? Apologies if this question is not relevant here.

Enjoy your weekend and Appreciate your help!

Hey Juz,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. We provide the software as is and there is no where in our contract that states we should / must assist you with your special requirements.

Arlex has already been ever so helpful by providing you the idea of what should be done and the rest should be entirely up to you. There is no software company out there that would even provide such assistance.

Thanks for understanding.